The Tao of Keith™.

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How to use ensure, insure, and assure. It doesn't matter if their definitions are technically compatible with one another in certain circumstances. Use them how they're supposed to be used: "If you want to keep them straight, it may be easier just to give these words separate roles: I assure you that we have insured the grounds to ensure that we will be protected in case of a lawsuit stemming from an accident."

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Mozilla 0.9.8 Released - I'm downloading it right now. The DHTML speed has been bad though. I noted this just a few days ago. Check out DHTMLCentral.com in both IE and Mozilla and see for yourself.

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Via Scripting News, John Dvorak: The Blog Phenomenon. "A recent overlooked Web trend—overlooked by the mainstream media, at least—is the proliferation of public diaries, generically referred to as Blogs. The term originated from "WeB log" and was further promoted by pyra.com as a Blog at its www.blogger.com site, although www.pita.com is considered the original source of easy-to-use Web logging. People who "Blog" are called Bloggers, and right now there are hundreds, thousands of Blogs on the Net... Whatever the reason for the Blog phenomenon, it's not going to go away anytime soon."

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O'Reilly Network: Miguel on Mono. "Miguel de Icaza is a happy developer--his Mono project is progressing well and is on schedule." ... "The JIT is now "self-hosting on Linux ... It can pretty much run anything we throw at it," Miguel said, happy to be free of relying on Microsoft's C# (pronounced c sharp) compiler. JIT allows him to work on Unix instead of having to switch to Windows for compiling."

"Miguel said he knows of no companies porting .NET to other Unix variants, such as Sun Microsystems' Solaris. "I haven't talked to Sun about this, but I probably should." He said his gut feeling is that Sun wouldn't be interested because, "They are betting everything on Java.""

"Completing Mono will be just as vital for the Unix community as .NET is for Microsoft's developers. Developers from either platform will be able to write code in one environment and bring the applications into others. "It's an extremely important need of the Unix universe," says Miguel. "Basically Microsoft had very hard-to-program-for APIs. People are still using C++; it's very hard to debug. .NET brought a breath of fresh air into Microsoft's applications.""

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Via Scripting News, about what was a really great Superbowl: The Underdogs Have Their Day: "This year my friend Linda cajoled me into joining her watching the Patriots after I expressed my reluctance about "wasting my time" on pro sports. This year has been the most memorable as together we watched the Patriots coalesce, navigate the obstacle course of pro team sports and learn how to become the team that could. The Patriots deserve every bit of the success and respect they now have. They fought together for it inch by inch."

I think Brady just knew they were going to win the game. Good story, read Meg's post.

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01:31 (utc-5)
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Time to borrow a bunch of links from Dave again... I might as well quote him too

"A hearty Right On to Cory Doctorow for his Sunday rant from a guy who's been accused by some of the best flamers out there of having too much time "on his hands.""

I don't know if I'd go as far as Cory did. His point is absolutely well taken, and his rant made me think. But surely there are things that are actually wastes of time?

Also a neat little comment from Doc Searls: "People ask me how I find time to blog" ... "Imagine if all your talk were work-related. You know: functional and important. Goal-directed. Disciplined. Life would suck, no?" ... "Here's another answer: I type fast. This post took less than three minutes. Making coffee takes more, and makes for lousy reading."

Finally, some neat writing from Dave on Integrity.

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01:21 (utc-5)
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Also, on lgf, apostasy. Lots of good quotes and commentary.

"So I’m wondering; could they chop off my hand for stealing a towel from a hotel room? borrowing a pen and not giving it back? taking an extra napkin at McDonald’s?"

See, this is why the actual Biblical standard for punishment for theft is retribution. You pay back what you stole plus a percentage more depending on what it was. You don't get limbs cut off! That's not just.

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01:12 (utc-5)

 

Via lgf, uh oh, they can't find Kenneth Lay.

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01:09 (utc-5)

 

Some funny quotes from my assembly language teacher:

"flat tire" - he tells a story about a kid who claims he got a flat tire on the way to the final. It's not funny, but the way he says "tire", and that he told the story to us three separate times, is.

"My sergeant used to call me Sarin. My name's not Sarin. Sarin's a gas that kills people. I'm not a gas that kills people."

"Don't pack up your books yet. We have 20 minutes left. You can cook a chicken in 20 minutes. Don't get edgy!"

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01:07 (utc-5)
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Ok, I'm about to start my experiment. My markup thing is good enough to start using, and more importantly, it works well enough to show to the world Well, not the source (yet), but the output.

So here begins my experiment. I've mentioned here before that I have to develop a survey/poll script for a website, and I figure while I was at it I might as well make a nifty, highly reusable one, and while I was at that, I can make the whole thing a case study or tutorial and put the results online!

So in my articles section, I'm going to explain what I'm doing as I code, and maybe people can benefit from it. I don't know how it's going to work, or if it's going to work out at all, but I'm going to try.

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